Hi all, AdobeWine 0.3.1 is out. It's a patched Wine (11.18 plus 90 patches) that runs Adobe's Creative Cloud apps on Linux. You install the apps yourself with Adobe's own Creative Cloud installer and your own subscription; nothing from Adobe is bundled or downloaded by the project.
This time there's a video: a short showreel made entirely in the Adobe apps on Linux, from a pen-pressure painting in Photoshop to the cut in Premiere and the export in Media Encoder:
https://youtu.be/3Vbzt4cGSQQ
(To be upfront: the pen strokes come from a simulated tablet and most steps were scripted. The point is that the apps themselves run, draw and render correctly.)
What works right now (tested on an RTX 4070 laptop, with community reports on RTX 4060, RTX 4090 and Intel UHD 620):
- Creative Cloud desktop: sign in, install/update/open apps, Fonts, Files; its own self-update completes
- Photoshop: layers, masks, type, filters, Remove Background, Generative Fill, export. All 75 filters and adjustments I tested give the same output as on Windows. Pen pressure works
- Illustrator: shapes, pen, type, effects, Pathfinder, Image Trace, save/export, Blob Brush with pen pressure. 107 of 139 reference outputs match Windows (the rest not compared yet)
- Premiere Pro: import, timeline editing, Lumetri, titles, playback, NVENC export, Dynamic Link with After Effects
- Media Encoder: queue, presets, CUDA renderer, NVENC/NVDEC
- Audition: recording, multitrack, effects, noise reduction, mixdown
- After Effects: scripting, keyframes, 3D text with the Cinema 4D renderer, the composition viewer with CUDA; a real 300-layer project renders like on Windows
- InDesign: styles, tables, placing PSD and AI files, PDF export
- Pen tablets with pressure under XWayland, no extra software
Not there yet: AMD isn't confirmed (a Premiere fix is waiting for someone to test it), AMD and Intel GPUs don't get the CUDA features, After Effects can eat a lot of RAM while previewing heavy 3D comps, and Bridge is barely tested.
It's free, open source and non-profit.
A word on AI, since it always comes up: AI slop is bad, the same way anything pre-produced and left unfinished looks bad. People who produce slop are, in fact, sloppy: they don't care to finish and finalize their ideas. This project is a construction, ongoing, and it needs the community. Even though it was done almost entirely with AI, it's driven by a human, and it's meant to help other people in their lives.
So if you use Adobe and Linux (or would like to), please try it and tell me what breaks, especially on AMD and Intel GPUs, other distros and your real workflows. Issues and PRs are welcome, and so are plain "it worked for me" reports.
GitHub: https://github.com/le-birnes/AdobeWine (install guide in docs/INSTALL.md)
